Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Uruguay and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Busters to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Soul Sonic Force,
Shuggie Otis,
The Grass Roots,
Outsiders,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Moody Blues,
Juan Atkins,
Oneida,
Charles Mingus,
The Walker Brothers,
Quando Quango,
Pantytec,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Easy Going,
Derrick Morgan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jacob Miller,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pharoah Sanders,
Slave,
Dual Sessions,
Theoretical Girls,
Lightning Bolt,
June Days,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Vladislav Delay,
Pere Ubu,
Albert Ayler,
a-ha,
The New Christs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Spoonie Gee,
Roxy Music,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Mummies,
Saccharine Trust,
Colin Newman,
Reagan Youth,
Agitation Free,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Hot Snakes,
the Human League,
Donald Byrd,
New Age Steppers,
Deepchord,
Nick Fraelich,
Sound Behaviour,
The Birthday Party,
Delon & Dalcan,
Silicon Teens,
Funkadelic,
Warsaw,
Barrington Levy,
Marcia Griffiths,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Average White Band,
PIL,
the Association,
Basic Channel,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.